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Kingfisher

from Sedition by The Sedatives

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In 2001, I was fortunate enough to visit the old ruins of Kandahar, Afghanistan, and was struck by the contrast between the age-old walls and the children playing around the irrigation ditches...

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Here... by a ditch..., by the fields...,
...lies the city of Old Kandahar,
whose streets once hummed to the stench of cattle and pest,
when the Prophet's Hejira was but distant news from the west
and the mud walls rang to the chatter of daily bazaar...

Here... flanked by mountains which formed mujahed's retreat
and absorbed bold Katjusha's thirty-throated siren song,
sung to the chop of twin rotors, alien throb,
where turbanned snipers shot till dust danced to a devilish beat......

Here... where quadrennial summer shrinks soil to dust … parches well,
pyres of somnifer poppy and almond trees won't grow;
where Taleb's blue veil and stricture strangle joy
and make music outlawed, I turn as I hear a yell

(YEE-HAR!)

and glimpse a streak of vibrant blue swoop low over former canal.

A little girl; dress of lapis,
legs bare, swings on a rope.

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from Sedition, released September 22, 2016
Music and lyrics © David Banks c. 2002, modified 2014
ISRC: UK-DVB-16-00019
The sound effect (Children at Park) in this track is a public domain recording by “Philipecp” released under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal licence.

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The Sedatives are Bjørn Frengstad and Dave Banks.

They first sung together as members of the mythical "Groundwater Boys" in Trondheim, Norway, and continued to write and play following Dave's return to Chesterfield, UK, in 1998.

They have toured their music throughout western Siberia and selected pubs in the eastern Peak District of Derbyshire. ... more

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